AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A570M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition Intel Arc A570M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A570M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A570M 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1300MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Arc A570M +307%

5.325 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Arc A570M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Aug 2023

Vancouver

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.20 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

166.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.65 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.325 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

DG2-256

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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